Summerlake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Newport News
Tract 51700031902 · Newport News city, VA · pop 4,145 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 51700031902 covers the Summerlake area of Newport News in Virginia. Home to 4,145 residents, it scores 5.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #25,108 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 65% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 31% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,282 a month while the average household earns $56,133 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 60% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Newport News and the region
Centroid at 37.0928, -76.5100 · click any tract to drill in
Why Summerlake scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Summerlake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 67%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 2,153Total filings over 5 yrs
- 42.09%Avg annual filing rate
- 51.2%Peak (2014)
- 385Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.6%Housing insecurity
- 8.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 12.1%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 31.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Summerlake
The heaviest input here is housing court bias at 4.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Newport News eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Newport News City County average of 5.8 and above the Virginia statewide average of 5.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 64th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,153 eviction filings here over 5 tracked years, with about 42.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 51.2% of renter households in 2014.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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